Oh, where should I begin....
When I wad an A340 Fo with Virgin, this Halstead fella was a junior Cabin attendant. So, there we were flying to Newark (New Jersey, not Nottinghamshire) and The clown Halstead came up to the flightdeck.
I quizzed him about Alpha One. He blamed everyone and anyone for it's failure except himself...
... He then told us he was flying as crew because he had lost his medical. Apparently (and I'm not kidding here, his girlfriend had stabbed him)...
... Then he told me, in all seriousness that one day he would be chief pilot of Virgin and that both the very experienced Captain and I would work for him...
...the expensive watch? I bet he bought it in the "fake" Market in Shanghai on a Virgin trip....
...what glistens is not always Gold...
...ambitious, yes, credible NO!!
The fella is, was, always will be a danger to others.
There's a word for people like him. And seeing as I know him personally, I feel entitled to use it here. The word is
